March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat Application - 2024

RETREAT TO BE HELD ON THE LAND!

PREREQUISITE:
Prerequisites for One-Month Retreats (28-night retreat): BEFORE applying you must have already completed at least 14 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of two (2) silent residential retreats with each of these six (6) nights or longer.

RETREAT DESCRIPTION:
“The Still Heart of Awareness”
Awareness, or consciousness, is the very heart of sentient life, the faculty that reveals all the events of our experience. Yet in our dharma practice we may not have learned how to meditate directly on this fundamental aspect of our minds.

In this retreat we will explore the nature of awareness in three stages. We’ll begin by developing greater stability of mind through mindfulness of breathing. Next we’ll introduce a regular practice of lovingkindness, allowing the beautiful and responsive qualities of heart to unfold. Then, with these foundations, we’ll start to explore the nature of awareness, this mysterious capacity of knowing. These practices open the door to emptiness, profound understanding, and great freedom.

Special Note for 2024: When registering for the 2-Month retreat, please be aware that the March retreat will feature very different themes from the February retreat in the meditation instructions and talks, unlike in prior years. Please read the descriptions carefully for both months before registering. Participants in March will be expected to follow the instructions as offered for that retreat. If you are not interested, the teachers kindly ask that you not sign up for this retreat.

These extended retreats (as with all retreats at Spirit Rock) are NOT open for self-retreats.

March Teaching Team:
Guy Armstrong, Sally Armstrong, Dawn Scott, Susie Harrington, Tuere Sala, Jaya Rudgard, Kodo Conlin (assistant), Eleni Monos (trainee), Rasika Link (movement)

Sliding Scale: $1,540-$11,620
Supporter Rate w/guaranteed single room – $11,620
Benefactor – $8,400
Sustainer – $6,160
BASE – $4,060
Scholarship Rate (YA, BIPOC, M/K) – $1,540
PLUS a donation to the teacher(s).

PLEASE READ – Details on our current COVID Safety Protocols for In-person Retreats. These protocols may change a few times between now and the start of the retreats.

CANCELLATION POLICY – Single-Month Retreat:

• $250 fee* = on or before January 6, 2024 (>8 weeks)
• $500 fee* = January 7 – February 3, 2024 (4-8 weeks)
• $750 fee* = February 4 – 17, 2024 (2-4 weeks)
• No refunds = February 18, 2024 or after (applies to ALL participants)

*Fees reduced 50% for scholarship participants, excluding last tier.